Now that I am at home I needed to start cataloging my data and getting things in order before I move on. I spent some time yesterday writing a small app to help catalog my CDs. I had a look around but most CD cataloging apps I could find were paid apps.

CdScan scans the CDs and lets you do a simple substring search (a little like the old Winamp J option) and also gives you an explorer kind of view of your CDs.

Its got a nifty little auto-scan option where you can simply set it to autoscan and keep changing CDs in your drive.

There are a whole host of features I can think of adding, but you might want to grab hold of it and use it to catalog your Cds and maybe add a feature or two (since I am giving away source code).

Download Binary: cdscan_binary.zip (250.75 KB)

Download Source Code: cdscan_source.zip (268.43 KB)

This is written using .Net 2.0 Beta 2, so you need at least the Beta2 runtime to get the binary to work.

Here are a lot of things I can think of adding, maybe you can add them for me –

-          wildcard and regex based searching

-          a more flexible explorer view

-          save more data for an item (EXIF data, Thumbnails, Text index)

-          more intuitive UI, with some helpful text messages…